The Friends of BRICS meeting in Johannesburg was attended by Ajit Doval, the national security adviser, where cybersecurity and AI was hot subject.
Along with the BRICS, other Friends of BRICS countries that attended the event were Belarus, Burundi, Iran, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Kazakhstan, and Cuba.
Doval stressed the need for collaborative efforts to tackle the issues brought on by cybersecurity.
“Overcoming resource limitations is crucial for the Global South in particular. India will continue to lead the way and collaborate closely with the Global South in this area, he added.
They asserted that NSA Doval emphasized the idea that the severity of cyber risks will sharply grow as disruptive technologies including artificial intelligence, big data, including the Internet of Everything become more widely adopted.
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The sources claim that he also highlighted the links between cybercriminals and terrorists, emphasizing how they use the internet for things like fundraising, radicalization, secure communications, and money laundering.
“The younger demographic was particularly vulnerable to the spread of extremist ideologies via social media platforms as they are adept at using technology and have malleable minds,” he noted.
The NSA also had numerous one-on-one conferences with his BRICS and Friends of BRICS colleagues.
Jim O’Neill, a Goldman Sachs economist, first used the abbreviation “BRIC” (or “the BRICs”) in 2001 to refer to a group of rapidly expanding economies that he predicted will collectively control the world economy by 2050.
